Prywatne jest polityczne: strategie emancypacyjne rodzin z wyboru w Polsce. Studium wybranych przypadków
Personal is Political: Emancipatory Strategies of Families of Choice in Poland. Study of Selected Cases

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the most significant judicial and media cases about LGBT families in the last decade. Their existence in the mainstream discourse shows the changes in the image of the family in the public sphere, as well as changes within the emancipatory strategies of the LGBT communities in Poland. Firstly, the dominant, conservative and mainstream media discourse is examined; it (re)presents and (re)produces the traditional vision of the family at the heart of a society. Then, authors move to analyse responses to the marginalization and lack of recognition in the public sphere faced by the LGBT families. They propose to read them as wilful and subversive, the emancipatory strategies of legitimization of ‘queer kinship’ in the public sphere. The article is rooted within sociology of gender and sexuality, sociology of family and everyday life, social movements, and transformation discourse. It calls for the attentive analysis of processes of “displaying families” and the social changes of family forms.

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